Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Indian housing report admitted false canadians Prosper in brazil78 by Paul Moloney the top Manitoba official for the Federal Indian affairs department admitted yesterday he sent a false report to Ottawa which said 23 houses were built last year at Cross Lake Reserve when Only six were we said Brian director general of Indian affairs Manitoba theres really no excuse for making that the Issue arose earlier this month when four nations confederacy chief Lyle Long claws complained to Ottawa that Manitoba bands got less than half the 391 houses allowed to them in 198081 because they were told to use their housing Money for other there is a waiting list for roughly houses on Manitoba reserves and the amount of new housing under Way int sufficient to reduce this when an explanation was requested by Veinot verified on 8 that 399 houses were financed by the 198081 housing eight More than the number requested by the this was despite the fact Veinot knew last april there was a shortfall of 17 houses at Cross about 500 Kilometres North of Winni because the band had used the Money for a lathe to trim logs for Home Veinot said the mistake occurred because Ottawa had asked for the information but he denied the allegation that other Manitoba bands Are Short houses because of a diversion of we have a problem at Cross Lake but nowhere said adding he has sent out a six Man team to count All the houses built in 1980 at 57 re serves in the inspection began 19 and should be completed by next at which time a second report signed by the inspectors will be sent to he As of not counting Cross we have verified 300 of the 400 units that were supposed to be built by the bands in the houses Are see Indian Page 4 Light rain tonight 4 showers tomorrow 10 october 1981 109 no 279 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 with supplements Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail exist ration number 0286 a photo a swedish boat approaches soviet submarine grounded on rocks in a restricted zone near a naval base in soviet subs skipper replaced Moscow tells political commissar to take charge of stranded vessel Stockholm a the swedish government says it wont re float a grounded soviet submarine until the Captain submits to but a Stockholm newspaper reported today that Moscow relieved the skipper of his command and replaced him by the ships political Piotr refused swed ish demands that he leave his ship for questioning aboard a nearby swedish the Stockholm newspaper Dagens quoting an unidentified naval said Gushin has been relieved on direct orders from Moscow and been replaced by a High political officer on Gushin has been locked up in his the paper swedish defence staff spokesman Janake Berg said he could neither confirm nor deny the newspapers re Gushin said navigational error due to a faulty Gyro Compass and bad weather caused his vessel to run aground tuesday night off the South East coast in restricted swedish territorial Waters 15 Kilometres from the Karl Krona naval Sweden rejected his saying the vessels penetration of the restricted which is peppered with showed very careful Navi the swedish government refused to let a soviet flotilla enter its Waters to Salvage the and the soviet government agreed to the swedish Navy doing the but after an Emer gency meeting with military the swedish government said the sub will not be re floated until the soviets cooperate fully in sorting out the we want a Clear explanation How the sub could be so far into a clearly marked military restricted said Lennart head of the Karl Krona we expect the Cap Tain to be otherwise his sub can be left on the swedish Navy vessels and sub Chaser helicopters armed with depth charges chased away an unidentified submarine and a soviet tug that tried to approach the 30yearold diesel powered sub Sven Carlsson said swedish divers inspected the submarine and found damage to it was prime minister Thorbjorn Falldin said the sub will be returned to the soviet but How and when will depend on the outcome of an investigation we have ordered conducted by the swedish military commander in he said any attempt by the sub to escape would be stopped by thousands of Winni Eggers left off provincial voters list by David Obrien enumerators failed to Contact thou Sands of people in some Winnipeg con forcing them to make an extra Effort if they want to vote in the 17 provincial in fort Rouge entire apart ment blocks were not visited by enumerators and As Many As people never made the preliminary voters about people were enumerated in the but 1976 census figures show there could be close to voters in the densely populated downtown according to John nip Campaign manager for Roland enumeration in this area has been very our workers have found that there were at least three or four apartment buildings that were never Penner he said huge gaps could be blamed on the nature of the constituent its a bad theres a High number of people who live alone and a lot of apartments and Rooming Martha returning officer for fort agreed a lot of people were missed and some apart ment blocks were never visited be cause enumerators misunderstood poll maps they were she said she sent workers to the blocks on sunday when she discovered the Grimmer added that some enumerators May not have done a very Good Many were met with hostility and verbal abuse when they knocked on she entire streets missed Mary Beth nip candidate in said entire streets have been missed in parts of her she said some voters were enumerated in the wrong in almost voters were met by but there is a possible voters in the cons Titu said returning officer Arnold he also credited the discrepancy to a Tough saying a lot of people dont want to they dont want to be an nip Campaign workers in the Riding said she has received dozens of phone Calls from people complaining about being missed by Wolseley returning officer Ritalynn Serbin said Shes received close to 100 phone Calls from people angry at being left off the voters list and wondering How there going to More than people were enu but there Are an estimated voters in the she added she Felt confident Many who were missed dont want to vote or be on a Campaign workers in Wolseley said the enumerators did a Good Job and dont feel too Many Active voters were one said a discrepancy of 10 per cent is considered people can get on the list by going to a location in their constituency today and the locations have been published in the free or you can Call the returning officer to find out where it Willis said people also have until 12 to visit the returning officer in their constituency and have their names put on a voters election nip promises to Aid towns nip Leader Howard Pawley electioneering in Mccreary promises Mal Street Rural Manitoba provincial assistance for facelifts while progressive Leader Sid Green was promising new tax sources for Premier Lyon commits himself to giving northerners satellite to the Premier also squares off against Pawley in two feature finance Page interviews on the provincial 36 will probe work Board by Andy Blicq and Sheila bean labor minister Ken Macmaster has asked for an investigation into the allegations of a workers compensation Board employee suspended for releasing confidential information from claim As Russell chairman of the said yesterday the suspended Ken faces charges for releasing confidential Jones said the attorney generals department is looking into the there seems to be no alternative but for the authorities to look into a breach of the Fine possible the workers compensation act pro Vides for a Fine of up to for a breach of Jones said it is Likely an outside source will be used for an investigation of the Board because an internal probe might be Board members were being alerted yesterday of a meeting to be held next week for a formal decision on the the free press obtained a detailed report submitted by the boards assistant claims to the Manitoba federation of the report outlined his allegations about the with examples from specific carrots which Jones denied in a later cover the operation of the Board and its treat ment of they included onus put on workers d Board employees were taught to look for ways to reject rather than approve As employees Are instructed not to Tell workers How to Appeal their g the claims department staff shifts the onus to workers to assist them selves by obtaining doctors reports and information from their employ d a study Carrol said he showed 17 out of 18 permanent partial disability awards rated by the boards doctors were appealed to medical review panels and higher amounts d employers Are pressured to find suitable work for their injured employees and if they cant the worker is Given a Cash settlement and passed on to another afraid to make and consequently the injured worker suffers As a in his Carrol named Board employees he claims Are responsible for problems and those who can Back up his he said he developed a system with several employees whereby if a claim ant was Given the bureaucratic run around the employees would sneak the file to see Mac lataster Page 4 worker denounces Board Bob Berard says the workers compensation Board is responsible for his loss of they put me right Down to the physically and he said in Ive lost my following his the compensation Board found Berard a Job As a he but he didst make enough every two weeks to sup port a wife and two he also said he took a Cut in pay of an which was supposed to be made up by the Board but was he was angry because he was not Given a More responsible Board people most peo ple Settle for a couple thousand dollars but youre you want a he said he was told by a Board management person he would have a starving Christmas unless he found a beards Case typifies what Many compensation Board employees say is a common feature of the compensation they say the Board makes it extremely difficult for injured workers to get proper on about 30 Board employees met and alleged management has made unfair claim decisions and created a fearful office the employees painted a picture of the compensation Board working As an adversary of the injured rather than As an see compensation Page 4 polish Leader plans to Call for strike Bai Warsaw a communist party chief Wojciech Jaruzelski told the pol ish parliament today he will submit a draft Bill calling for an immediate ban on strikes to protect Poland from the wave of labor unrest that has thrown the country into who is also Premier and defence called the current situation and asked Parlia ment to consider a draft proposal for a Law about extraordinary Means of Protection of citizens and the he said in addition to the strike the draft Calls for an end to All action violating the social the interests of the socialist the peaceful and secure existence of our must and will be protect Jaruzelski to thunderous Solidarity labor federation leaders also called for an end to sweeping local Wildcat warning they would consider an internal ban on strikes backed by disciplinary actions to pre serve about rebellious workers staged Job actions we must program the use of the strike weapon in a thoughtful and planned a statement from the unions Gdansk Headquarters we must Settle the most important problems of the such As eco nomic control Over the econ omy and Access to the new clangers president reagans decision to sell Azacs to saudi Arabia has left arabs but Israel predicts grave new dangers in the Middle stamped out monarchists Are in a state of Wrath Over possibility the Post office May stamp out the warriors win Winnipeg smarting since tuesday after losing to Billings big horns turned it on last night to beat them new pm Iran new prime minister is a Radical islamic Index Ann 22 answers 35 20 7 64 22 28 8 20 Jumble 35 53 sports to ;